FYI, Edward Galvez has been maintaining this calendar that has been going for a while that chapters and staff have been using for various consultations, surveys, and RfCs.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Calendar
Seems to me this is a good approach to avoid the issue of "my inbox is inundated with so many notices" while also informing community members with what is going on.
- Chris
Chris "Jethro" Schilling I JethroBT (WMF) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:I_JethroBT_(WMF) Community Organizer, Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home
On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 4:52 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
My point is more or less the same one that you're making. Communications (too much and too little) and information overload are both challenges. I don't think there's going to be a silver bullet solution, but I hope that WMF will invest effort into addressing this set of problems during the next Annual Plan. Some of this is WMF-specific, but some of it also relates to how we've organized ourselves in the community through organic growth and over time we've developed so many channels that one wonders if we would benefit from some consolidation and pruning.
Pine
On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 2:15 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
You mean, "how to deal with people who complain they weren't consulted then turn around and complain they were excessively consulted"? At this point, the appropriate thing would be to put forward a plausible solution rather than complain they did the thing you claimed they hadn't sufficiently done.
- d.
On 18 March 2017 at 20:39, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Chris,
That last paragraph assumes that people (1) know where to look and (2)
have
hours to spend watching countless channels for announcements. On the
other
hand, there's also a problem of burying people in so many
announcements,
surveys, and consultations that people start to tune it all out. This
is
part of a larger set of communications and "information overload"
problems
that I'm hoping that WMF will address, particularly during its next
Annual
Plan.
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